O Superman, where are you now?

That’s a line from the song Land of Confusion by Genesis. The lyrics of that song are far more poignant today than when Phil Collins first sang them in 1986.

Ooh, Superman where are you nowWhen everything’s gone wrong somehow?The men of steel, the men of powerAre losing control by the hourThis is the time, this is the placeSo we look for the futureBut there’s not much love to go roundTell me why, this is a land of confusion

When I was in Germany last week, was watching the one English language channel; on the hotel TV – CNN World News. Some financial expert was being interviewed on the Greece debt crisis. He calmly said that he was convinced the prospect of losing Greece and a few other countries such as Spain and Italy from the Eurozone wasn’t as big a problem as it appeared. He said what would most likely happen is that those debt-ridden nations would just be the first to be placed under a super-national reorganizational agency that would restructure them and that that agency would then grow to govern all of the Eurozone. It was one of those moments where I stopped and said, “Did I really just hear that?”

How chilling is the second to last sentence of the article? “Given Europe’s inability to get ahead of the debt crisis, it could need someone with Machiavelli’s talent for high politics to achieve the ultimate aim: political union.”

What’s pathetic at present is that the world stage is abysmally lacking ANYONE with the charisma or gravitas to rally and unite. There’s an abject leadership drought; a total famine in the realm of statesmanship that is like a big, sucking vacuum. It seems the whole world feels it keenly.Is the world being set up for the antichrist or WHAT ??